RatkojaRiku

It hadn’t fallen to me to blog a Scorpion puzzle for quite some time, so I attacked this one with gusto. A quick glance through the clues reveals that there is a theme … Read more >>

As today is the last Wednesday of the month, I was gearing up for a Crosophile puzzle. Since Crosophile provided yesterday’s crossword and for no apparent (thematic) reason, I assumed that there must … Read more >>

I had quite a struggle solving this one and explaining the wordplay to my satisfaction. I think that I got there in the end with all but one clue, 28, so I look … Read more >>

Our Indy Good Friday crossword challenge this morning has been provided by Phi. 18 was one of the first clues that I solved, which made me suspect that there was to be an … Read more >>

This Tuesday has brought my latest encounter with Radian, of which there have been many over the last six months or so. I found that I made fairly swift progress through this one, … Read more >>

Dac returns to his spiritual home of the Wednesday slot this week. After the difficulties I had penetrating last week’s wordplay, I was somewhat relieved to find that I could parse most, if … Read more >>

It has been a while since I have solved and blogged a puzzle by Donk, so I attacked this morning’s challenge with gusto. There are a fair few short entries in this grid, … Read more >>

It wouldn’t be Friday without Phi, would it?! I found this one trickier than the average Phi and, indeed, I would not have finished it without searching for the last two entries – … Read more >>

This morning saw my latest Tuesday tussle with Radian. This particular puzzle had a more obvious theme than some previous ones, in that many of the clues referred explicitly to languages. As such, … Read more >>

It is Wednesday today, so it was no surprise to find Dac’s latest offering to tackle this morning. I found this easier than the average Dac puzzle, and made steady progress from start … Read more >>

It is a long time since I have had the task of blogging a Morph puzzle, so I was keen to see how I would cope with it, first with solving the clues, … Read more >>

I was expecting this Friday to bring me a lexical tussle with Phi, and so it did. This was a puzzle I was expecting to whizz through, having worked out all the longer … Read more >>

It is the third time in recent months that I have blogged a Tuesday puzzle by Radian, but I am certainly not complaining! I suppose there simply had to be a puzzle during … Read more >>

This morning saw what I hope will be the first of many Dac solves and blogs in 2014. This was a medium-difficulty puzzle by Dac standards, in my humble opinion. I completed the … Read more >>

This was my first blogging encounter with Nimrod for a long time – and is not one that I will forget in a hurry! A first perusal of the grid reveals that most … Read more >>